Ex-Cyclone Korie Lucious: 'I was smoking a lot of weed' at Michigan State

11:48 PM,
Sep. 17, 2013

Korie Lucious started at Iowa State last season.

Written by

Joe Rexrode
Detroit Free Press

When Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo dismissed guard Korie Lucious from his team in January 2011, it was for an unspecified "violation of team rules."

That team went on to limp into the NCAA tournament, losing in the opener to UCLA, and Lucious transferred to Iowa State, where he started last season at point guard. After playing for the Detroit Pistons' summer league team, he will play this fall in Poland. In a recent interview with Travis Singleton of blackathlete.net, Lucious said marijuana was the reason Izzo booted him from the team.